A Raisin in the Sun

2012 - 2013 Season: February 28 - March 10

Three generations are pressed together in one apartment. Times are tight and getting tighter. Lorraine Hansberry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play takes its title from the poem "A Dream Deferred" by Langstron Hughes, and draws us into the Younger family's crossroads moment in Chicago's largely African-American Woodlawn neighborhood around 1960. The hearts and minds of the Youngers are full to bursting with different ideas of and yearnings for what it will take to improve their situation. Dreams are on the verge of festering. A long-awaited insurance check is on its way and could change everything. Will it bring real change? Raisin eloquently explores the dynamics of family, parenthood, socio-economics, pride, love, ethnicity, and race. Guest Artist, Bradley alumnus, local theatre artist and television personality Garry Moore directs.